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Originally Posted by Bellamira
Why didn't Merry and Pippin go? I think they were young enough and resilient enough that they did not need the healing of the Valar. I think they were perfectly contented to live out their lives in the idyllic peace of the Shire.
I think Gimli was changed enough from his experience, more so than probably any other of his people, and so he was accorded this special honor.
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Possilbly, though they'd have to be REALLY resilient. Next to Frodo and Sam, Merry and Pippin probably had the most traumatic experiances during the war. Merry almost died from his attempt to kill the Witch King. And, thanks to the Palantir, Pippin may be the only Hobbit (besides Frodo, assuming the eye he saw in Gladriel's pool was Sauron's actual eye) in history to ever looked Sauron directly in the face ; that would probably have haunted him for the rest of his days. Actually if one was going by trauma alone, Gimli was probably the bottom man on the totem pole; even Legolas would have had to deal with what he saw behind him on the Paths of the Dead.